your are going towards don't buy players who could be compared to players we buy cause we want to afford them ..
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Di Maria is young and i'm all for paying arms and legs for promising hot shots like Di Maria than paying 40 + incentive for a 28/29 year old player
one will have his value increase in time the other will deteriorate in time cause he is a finished product (see Henry or Ibra or Kaka )
Well, of course it would be beneficial for Barca, but it is really irrational to make an offer of 40 mil. I know you didn't since you say you didn't. But. What i'm saying is that bidding 40 mil for Di Maria is about as stupid as bidding 100 million for Cronaldo. Sure Cronaldo is one of the best players in the world, but by bidding 100 million you set off spending all over the world that reached unethical levels, with so much money that could find better use, suddenly a single
football player is being sold for 30 million where last year he would have gone for half that. What I'm saying here is that stupid spending leads to disproportionate, inflated demands.
Sure you can say his value is going to increase, he may become worth 40 million in the future. But Gio, seriously. If Di Maria goes for 40 million, then Hazard should go for 40 million, Pastore should go for 40 million, David Luiz for 40 million, Hulk for 40 million... That is just INSANE.
Yes, he is a hot prospect. But you know
very well that 40 million is out of this world insane.
Look, if Di Maria goes for 40 million then Inter will have every right to demand 60 for Maicon, so not only will you be making life hard for Barca, you'll also be making it hard for yourselves.
Having said all of that, you've told me that it isn't going to happen - at least not as things look atm. But there is no way you can justify that much money for Di Maria.